One study released on the heels of HRC’s groundbreaking LGBT youth survey shows that students who are bullied at school suffer long after the harassment ends and are more likely to suffer from health complications like heart disease and diabetes in middle age.

Moments ago the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in a series of legal challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, upholding the historic law passed in the last Congress to reform our nation’s healthcare system. As part of that reform, the Act created or paved the way for important new protections for and investments in the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people – among them nondiscrimination in accessing healthcare in the individual market, collection of critical LGBT health data, and an end to barriers to care for people with pre-existing conditions like HIV/AIDS.